For review: PEP 308 - If-then-else expression

[James J. Besemer]

Michele Simionato wrote:

> It is EXACTLY because "if" is already overloaded that I don't want to
> overload it even more! 

I think you and others exagerate the cost/danger of overloading "if".

Overall, defining a new interpretation for "if", one that may be 
unambiguously discriminated in all cases arguably is better than introducing 
a new keyword (which necessarily breaks old code).


> Anyway, (if c then e1 else e2), is better than
> nothing and better than Guido's proposal.

I tend to agree.  The middle-out form is a lot more confusing than the strict 
left to right ones.

Regards

--jb


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